In my mind, "Apple" as a brand used to be synonymous with "attention to detail" but sadly, over the course of the last 8 - 10 years, their choices have become anything but detail oriented.

This year, things have gotten so bad that I'm starting to think they've stopped caring about user experience, accessibility, and detailed QA tests altogether.

If we could remove the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit, there'd be a 50% reduction in the overall debris-generating potential, reports Ars Technica

The European Union was designed for peace – it is never going to be a war machine

A debate has erupted in Denmark over the fate of a mermaid statue that is to be removed from public view after being decried as “ugly and pornographic” and “a man’s hot dream of what a woman should look like”

The "Grandma Exploit"

it even retains the classic space western anime’s opening theme, “Tank!”

maxilla’s Charles Chung, who was previously one of the 3DCG staff for Magic: The Gathering’s Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty anime trailer, directed the “Cowboy Bebop x Magic: The Gathering Opening Homage Trailer” and was also its compositing director. The character designs are from illustrator and designer Apapico, while Jujutsu Kaisen‘s Eiko Matsushima was the video’s color designer. aeonium is the animaton production studio.

The trailer can’t be embedded, so you’ll have to watch it over on YouTube.

I think of AI as alternative intelligence – and its capacity to be ‘other’ is just what the human race needs

What all this says is that simple decisions are best made by careful conscious thought. But for complicated decisions, the best choices may result from “deliberation without paying attention,” that is letting the thinking be done by the unconscious mind

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl

OpenAI’s ChatGPT search tool may be open to manipulation using hidden content, and can return malicious code from websites it searches, a Guardian investigation has found